Hacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org

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I quite like this style of video, I have only watched the first ~15 minutes, but I find it a much more engaging way to jump right into code like this, or learn some Go while I watch.

I would love to see some popular figures in the open source world, talk us through a pull request etc. I would be surprised if it didn't drive a few more contributors to the project and if nothing else would be a powerful introduction to the project.

Definitely! Twitch.tv for programming would be just awesome!

You might find handmade hero interesting. http://www.twitch.tv/handmade_hero

I agree. It's pretty interesting (and validating) to watch other people pair up and write code like this, regardless of the subject matter.

I noticed they don't use syntax highlighting, is this normal in the Go community? I always wonder about the benefits of syntax highlighting.

I would argue that syntax highlighting is the norm in the Go community as much as it is in any other -- ultimately, it's an individual developer's decision.

We write Go full time at my company and everyone I know certainly uses syntax highlighting plugins for their editors.

Fantastic video. I think it's one of the best way to improve my knowledge of the go dev env. congrat to the team for the idea.

bradfitz is my coding hero; you can tell he's a (former) perl hacker. ;)

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